Nandita Sharma, "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants" (Duke UP, 2020)
In today's program, we speak to\xa0Nandita Sharma, activist scholar\xa0and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. We talk about\xa0Home Rule:\xa0National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants\xa0(Duke University Press, 2020).\nIn\xa0Home Rule,\xa0Sharma brilliantly traces the "historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as 'colonial invaders.'" She theorizes the Postcolonial New World Order of nation-states wherein the category of the Native (initially referred to as such to demarcate colonized status) has been revitalized and claims to autochthony have become the basis of "true national belonging." In consequence, migrants have been facing exclusion, expulsion, and even extermination. The hardening of nationalisms in the Postcolonial New World Order has contained demands for decolonization, leaving their potential unfulfilled. Sharma forcefully and convincingly shows that the only way forward is by building a common wherein the ruling categories of Native and Migrant are dissolved.\nJochen Schmon is a PhD Student in Politics at the New School for Social Research.\xa0You can reach him on Twitter\xa0@JohenShmon.\nDeren Ertas\xa0is a PhD Candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern\xa0Studies at Harvard University. You can reach her own Twitter\xa0@drnrts.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law